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Jim ended up pulling out his breathing tube during a bad dream.

“We told him that mom was now here,” Chris told PEOPLE. “He started freaking out. But when we told him he wasn’t going to make it, he got out a pen and paper and tried to write because he wasn’t able to speak.”

He wrote the word “Mom.” So the hospital did something that they’ve never done before.

They put two patients, one who was on life support the other who just came off of it, in the same room.

“It was very risky. But they did it for them. He started bawling and saying thank you by doing the praying motion,” Chris said of his dad.

Chris decided he would snap a photo of two of them as it was likely to be one of their last moments together on Earth.

“The reason I took it was so that when she came off life-support, she could see that Dad was right there with her,” Chris told CBC News. “If there’s one definition of my dad, it’s that he was a proud husband and proud dad.”

The first thing Cindy asked when she woke up a few days later was whether her husband passed away. She found comfort knowing that she had a chance to be with her husband one more time before he passed away.

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